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| Church of Kanakarga. Image size: 19.3 x 14 cms. "....... We returned through a variety of good and bad, beautiful and bleak grounds, until we arrived at the convent Canakarga; where, recollecting that it would be proper to give you an idea of a Greek church in their true taste, I pulled out my pencil and made the sketch to save myself the trouble of drawing and measuring, and you that of considering, an ichnographical plan: I shall only inform you that it is built exactly according to the mode of the ancient Greek churches, which, you know, consisted of a narthix or porch, a pronaos or outward chapel, a naos or nave, the vema or chancel and the thysiasterion or altar......" |